Well Farmhouse And Adjoining Shippon To East

NORTH TAMERTON NORTH TAMERTON SX 39 NW 8/29 Well Farmhouse and adjoining shippon to east

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Farmhouse. Circa C16 altered late C17 (concealed, rendered over, datestone 1669) and restored 1982. Roughcast cob and stone rubble. Corrugated iron roof with gabled lower end (right) and hipped higher end (left). Long single depth plan, probably originally 3 rooms and cross or through passage plan, and possibly having open hall, now floored. 2-storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window range. C19 2-light casements with glazing bars. Right-hand ground floor room at lower end has sash. Doorway to right of centre (possibly to former through/cross passage) with C19/20 glazed porch with shaped bargeboards. Rendered axial stack backing onto passage and later stack at lower gable end. Lateral stack over rear wall of upper end. Projecting wing at front of higher end. Shippon projecting at right angles to rear of lower end with hipped roof. Interior: 2 cruck trusses, probably raised crucks, with trenched purlins and diagonal ridge piece. Some evidence of smoke -blackening in roof. Roughly hewn, closely spaced beams (some replaced) in ground floor room at east end.

Listing NGR: SX3136897323